{"id":421991,"date":"2025-09-13T20:50:26","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421991\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T20:50:26","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T20:50:26","slug":"elon-musk-calls-for-dissolution-of-parliament-at-far-right-rally-in-london-elon-musk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/421991\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk calls for dissolution of parliament at far-right rally in London | Elon Musk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Elon Musk has called for a \u201cdissolution of parliament\u201d and a \u201cchange of government\u201d in the UK while addressing the crowd attending the \u201cunite the kingdom\u201d rally, organised by the far-right activist Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, known as Tommy Robinson<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The X owner, who dialled in via a video link and spoke to Robinson while thousands of attenders watched along, also railed against the \u201cwoke mind virus\u201d and told the crowd that \u201cviolence is coming\u201d and that \u201cyou either fight back or you die\u201d.<\/p>\n

Speaking at the rally, he said: \u201cI really think that there\u2019s got to be a change of government in Britain. You can\u2019t \u2013 we don\u2019t have another four years, or whenever the next election is, it\u2019s too long. Something\u2019s got to be done. There\u2019s got to be a dissolution of parliament and a new vote held.\u201d<\/p>\n

This is not the first time Musk has involved himself in British politics. He started a war of words with the UK government over the grooming gangs scandal, and also criticised the Online Safety Act, calling the legislation a threat to free speech.<\/p>\n

\"AerialAerial footage shows scale of ‘unite the kingdom’ rally \u2013 video<\/p>\n

He had a warm relationship with Nigel Farage, and there were even rumours he could channel a donation to his party before the Tesla boss called for the Reform UK leader to be replaced during a dispute over his support for Robinson.<\/p>\n

Musk told the crowd in central London<\/a> that he wants to appeal to \u201cBritish common sense\u201d, saying: \u201cMy appeal is to British common sense, which is to look carefully around you and say: \u2018If this continues, what world will you be living in?\u2019<\/p>\n

Katie Hopkins (l) with Tommy Robinson at the unite the kingdom rally in central London on Saturday. Photograph: Lucy North\/PAFlares are thrown as protesters take part in the \u2018unite the kingdom\u2019 rally. Photograph: Tayfun Salc\u0131\/EPA<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is a message to the reasonable centre, the people who ordinarily wouldn\u2019t get involved in politics, who just want to live their lives. They don\u2019t want that, they\u2019re quiet, they just go about their business.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy message is to them: if this continues, that violence is going to come to you, you will have no choice. You\u2019re in a fundamental situation here. Whether you choose violence or not, violence is coming to you. You either fight back or you die, that\u2019s the truth, I think.\u201d<\/p>\n

The tech billionaire also told the crowd \u201cthe left are the party of murder\u201d, referring to the death of Charlie Kirk<\/a>. He said: \u201cThere\u2019s so much violence on the left, with our friend Charlie Kirk getting murdered in cold blood this week and people on the left celebrating it openly. The left is the party of murder and celebrating murder. I mean, let that sink in for a minute, that\u2019s who we\u2019re dealing with here.\u201d<\/p>\n

Also in his speech to the unite the kingdom marchers, he also criticised what he called the woke mind virus and said decisions for advancement should be on merit rather than \u201cdiscrimination on the basis of sex, or religion or any race or anything else\u201d.<\/p>\n

He said: \u201cA lot of the woke stuff is actually super-racist, it\u2019s super-sexist and often it\u2019s anti-religion, but only anti-Christian, like why anti-Christian? That\u2019s unfair \u2026 that should be all that matters, the woke mind virus, that I call it, is against all that.\u201d<\/p>\n

More than 110,000 people were estimated to have taken part in the far-right street rally, in what is thought to be one of the largest nationalist events in decades. The marchers were faced by about 5,000 anti-racist counter-protesters.<\/p>\n

In addition to Musk, figures including Katie Hopkins and French far-right politician \u00c9ric Zemmour were invited to speak at the event.<\/p>\n

PA Media contributed to this report<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elon Musk has called for a \u201cdissolution of parliament\u201d and a \u201cchange of government\u201d in the UK while…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":421992,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7757],"tags":[748,393,4884,257,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-421991","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-london","8":"tag-britain","9":"tag-england","10":"tag-great-britain","11":"tag-london","12":"tag-uk","13":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115198966742677184","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421991","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=421991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/421991\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/421992"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=421991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=421991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=421991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}